Queen-rearing chamber



, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE LYMAN TINKER, OE NEIV PHILADELPHIA, ASSIGNOR OE ONE-HALF TO IYINFIELD S. KLINE, OF BOLIVAR, OI-IIO.

QUEEN-HEARING CHAMBER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,972, dated July 16, 1889.

Application tiled February ll, 1889. Serial No. 300,637. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may GOw'nf to return to the holes vfrom which they came, Be it known thatI, GEORGE LYMAN TINKER, the part of the hive about the holes is painted a citizen of the United States, residing at New a different color, or twigs of leaves or other Philadelphia, in the county of Tuscarawas objects may be suspended near the holes for 55 and State of Ohio, have invented a new and the same purpose. nseful Queen-Roaring Chamber, of which the The invention found to be the most servicellowing is a full, clear, and exact descripable for the purposes set vforth is illustrated on, which will enable others skilled in the in the accompanying drawings, in whichtto which it appertains to make and use the Figure 1 is a perspective view of the same 6o me. with holes on each of the sides, there heilig The object of this invent-ion is to facilitate one opening for each of the apartments. 1e rearing of queen bees. I'Ieretofore queens This figure represents a brood-chamber of a ave been reared in small or nucleus colonies, hive having partitions within and queen-ex r in full colonies of bees, only one queen becluding metal on the bottom. On the top is 65 ing reared in a colony at one and the same shown a queen-excluding honey-board, that is time. By my invention a number of queens used in connection with the other parts ot the can be reared in every full colony of bees at device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the one and the same time. same, and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the Queen bees are natural enemies of each same. In each of the figures the honey-board 7o other, the strongest and most active always is shown in an inverted position. killing her rivals, if the opportunity presents, Similarletters refer to similar parts throughby stinging them. Ilence, if more than one out the several views. queen is sought to be kept in a colony of bees The device consists of a frame of suitable they must be kept apart by suitable means. dimensions, andis constructed of the sides A 75 25 By the use of perforated metal queen-exclud and the ends B, in each of which is made a I ing sheets, queenwcells or eombs of brood may hole (i, opening into a separate apartment be safely hatched in as many apartments of within. The ends are recessed at D, to vfacilia hive as there may be cells and eombs of tate handling. Alighting-boards E are atbrood, one cell being put in each of the aparttached below the holes, as shown. The ends So 3o ments, the said sheet metal being arranged 3 are rabbeted at the upper and inner edge between the apartments and provided with at F, to receive the ends of the brood-'frames perforations of such size as to freely admit G. Attached tothe inner surface of the ends the worker bees to all of the said apartments, B, and restin in the rabbets E, are strips of s0 that the brood maybe protected and cared bent tin lI, (shown in Fig. 2,) to support the 85 3 5 for. That the young` queens so hatched may projecting ends of the top bars of the broodmate and become serviceable, it is required frames. that the said sheet metal be so placed that The partitions I', forming the apartments they cannot come in contact with each other, .I JI, are shown in Fig. They come even so as to quarrel and involve the worker bees with the top of the frame, whereby a bce- 9o 4o in the conflict. To prevent the queensfrom space is left above the tops of the broodcoming in contact with each other, there must frames in each of the apartments. They are be provided intervening spaces of not less rabbeted on the upper edges, as shown,- to than three-eighths of an inch on all of the limit the extent of the propolizing where they sides of the apartments where the said sheet come in contact with the slats of the honey- 9 5 45 metal is used. The other side or sides of the board. If one or more queen-rearing supers apart-ments may be of wood or any material are to be placed on a hive, one above the to keep the queens apart. It is further reother, a queeii-excluding honey-board is required that each of the apartments shall have quired between each one of them. The ends a hole or opening to the outside of the hive, B and sides A are rabbeted at the lower and roo 5o so that the young queens may fly out to meet inner edges, at K K, to receivethe slats L L, the drone bees. To enable each of the queens as shown. They are arranged longitudinally ends of the slats Q Q, Which are made With saw-kerfs in their adjacent edges to receive the strips of perforated sheet metal M M.

The queen-rearing chamber is used as follows: Brood-combs having queen-cells constructed on them in any colony of bees may be set over into the chamber, and it may be then used in place of the regular brood-chamber, the queen-excluding houey-board being placed on the top, and then the supers of the hive, and lastly the cover; or the honeyboard may first be placed on a broodchamber of a colony of bees, and then the extractf ing or section supers, and lastly the queenrearing chamber and the cover of the hive.

.,tion dividing the box into compartments, said box having queen-bee openings leading to each compartment, supports in each compartment for suspending a comb-frame, a comb-frame on such supports, and a top and bottom each consisting of a series of longitudinal slats spaced apart, having in their edges saW-kerfs carrying narrow strips of perforated metal, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

GEORGE LYMAN TINKER.

In presence of* HARVEY BARNHILL, ALEXANDER H. BROWN.

lt is heieby oeitiiied that in Letters Patent No. 406,972, granted July 16, 1889, i upon the application of George Lyman Tinker, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, for an improveinent in Queen-Bearing Chambers, was erroneously issued to said Tinker and Winfield S. Kline,77 of Bolivar, Ohio, as joint owners of the invention, Whereas said s Letters Patent should have been issued to said Geoyge lhjmom Tinker as sole owner ofsaid invention; and that said Letters Patent should be read With this correction Correction in Letters Patent No. 406,972.

therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed, eountersigned, and sealed this 30th day of July, A. D. 1889.

[SEAL] oYRUs BUssnY,

Assistant Seotzwy ofthe Interim'. Uountersigned C. E. MITCHELL,

Commissionm of Patellis. 

